the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower.
It was the main feature and the entrance gateway to the Universal Exposition of 1889
as an entrance arch for the Worlds Fair in 1889
Le Grand Palais was not commissioned by one person. It was built, along with other notable structures, as part of the Universal Exposition of 1900.
Paris had few open spaces, so the Champ de Mars was the obvious place for the Exposition Universelle of 1889. The tower was built at the river end of the site to form a gateway.
The world's fair of Paris are the creations and new technologies built for that specific event. More than Half the world attend this. it happens every 4 years.
No, The Petřín Lookout Tower in Prague looks like and was built to be a copy of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In 1889 its construction was planned and financed by members of The Club of Czech Tourists who had visited the world exposition in Paris and were inspired by the Eiffel Tower.
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When it was being built there was an outrage from some French artists and writers, who asked for the tower to be destroyed. Nowadays it is part of the French identity and people are used to see it. Nobody is forced to like the Eiffel tower, but most French do.
Paris is known as a creative city because : firstly, the exposition universelles exhibiton took place in Paris in 1889 for especially which the Eiffel tower was built. this was the start of modern tourism as people from all over the world came to Paris to witness the exhibition. secondly, because Paris was the place where most of the art movements like art deco, fauvism, cubism, art nouveau, surrealism n dadaism started.
1934, replacing a temporary zoo built for the colonial exposition of 1931.